Menachem Kuchar is a multifacted artist. He is a Fine Art Photographer and a Master Storyteller.
Most stories are based on his personal experiences. These narratives will make you laugh and make you cry; they
contain both comedy and tragedy. He weaves a wonderful web and spins a superb yarn.

Published in January, 2006,
Actualities in Black & Orange is Menachem Kuchar's long overdue first book. It illustrates the people
in and behind the "Orange" Campaign in Israel during 2005.

The work represents an inquiry into contemporary Israeli life. Using his camera precisely and lucidly to record
the anti-"Disengagement" movement, Menachem weaves a photographic narrative of what was happening in the background
to the events being played out on the national stage. Stunningly laid out and finely printed, the book presents
more than forty timely photographs from the Actualities
in Black & Orange collection, fifteen photographs from
the Bus Stop collection as well as colour photographs taken in Gush Katif.

Menachem's unique eye for both the monumental and the mundane reveals a vision of universal interest rooted in the everyday,
yet always looking beyond. He focuses on the subtleties of human interaction to make eloquent images.

Menachem has mastered his medium. His work shows a deep love and compassionate understanding of his country, its people,
their life, their problems and their needs.